The Future of TV Begins this week on Xbox 360

On Tuesday, December 6th the latest update to the Xbox 360 dashboard will be available to consoles around the world. In addition to new and updated features, if you have Kinect you’ll be able to say it and Xbox will find it with Bing Search.

Today we also announced the following partners and apps are coming soon to Xbox 360:

Thanks for not giving a single f*** to my country, again! Will the youtube service be available to Portugal or we stay out of it again? Our live subscription should be reduced to half of the price, since we don’t get any of these (and old) new features. PORTUGUESE LIVE SERVICE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

Totally agreed. It’s also annoying in that it loses track of the last episode I watched. I was making my way through Stargate: SG1 and before the update it’d always load up the next episode when I selected the series. Now, it automatically starts playing episode 1 every time.

Unfortunately this latest dash update has severely degraded my video experience with Xbox360. Let me preface with saying I use my X360 for 2 purposes: Games (obviously), and streaming video from my NAS or Media PCs.

This latest update has broken the remote control interface in such that the PLAY button now acts as the select button, so I no longer can quickly start a video with it. This is a hugely disappointing change, and unnecessary as there is already a select/OK button to use!

Secondly, getting to the video tiles takes 2 or 3 times as much effort now as it did before. I wish we could customize the tile location like on Win8/WinPhone, but alas… I’m very disappointed with the interface now.

Have people not realized that the new dash is still in the preview stage?
Things WILL change in the coming weeks, just keep posting feedback and stop trying to threaten Microsoft with you cancelling your gold account, as if that will make a dent in their earnings.

Have you not realized that they basically released a beta update to everyone? That’s the real problem, instead of refining things and getting all the apps up and running with “beta testers” they decided to annoy everyone with a half-brained update.